4. C.Hostilius was sent by the senate to Alexandria in B. C. 168 to interpose as legatus between Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria [ANTIOCHUS, IV.] and Ptolemy Physcon and Cleopatra, the sovereigns of Egypt. [CLEOPATRA, No. 6.] (Liv. 44.19, 29.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890